ONE MORE TRY

GEORGE MICHAEL

SONGWRITER: GEORGE MICHAEL

COUNTRY: U.K.

ALBUM: FAITH

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: SOFT ROCK

YEAR: 1987

George Michael(born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou; 25 June 1963 – 25 December 2016) was an English singer, songwriter, record producer, and philanthropist who rose to fame as a member of the music duo Wham! and later embarked on a solo career. Michael sold over 80 million records worldwide making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. He achieved seven number one songs on the UK Singles Chart and eight number one songs on the US Billboard Hot 100. He was widely known for his success in the 1980s and 1990s, including Wham! singles such as "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and "Last Christmas" and solo singles such as "Careless Whisper" and "Faith".

Michael formed the duo Wham! With Andrew Ridgeley in 1981. The band's first two albums, Fantastic(1983) and Make It Big(1984), reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200. Michael's first solo single "Careless Whisper" reached number one in over 20 countries, including the UK and US. Michael's debut solo album, Faith, was released in 1987, topping the UK Albums Chart and staying at number one on the Billboard 200 for 12 weeks. Four singles from the album--"Faith", "Father Figure", "One More Try", and "Monkey"—reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Faith was named Album of the Year at the 31st Grammy Awards. Three years after the release of Faith, Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1(1990) was released; that album included the Billboard Hot 100 number one "Praying for Time". "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me", a 1991 duet with Elton John, was also a transatlantic number one.

Michael, Who came out as gay in 1998, was an active LGBT rights campaigner and HIV/AIDS charity fundraiser. Michael's personal life and legal troubles made headlines during the late 1990s and 2000s, as he was arrested for public lewdness in 1998 and was arrested for multiple drug-related offenses after that time. The 2005 documentary A Different Story covered his career and personal life. Michael's first tour since 1991, the 25 Live tour, spanned three tours over the course of three years; 2006, 2007, and 2008. Four years later, he performed his final concert at London's Earls Court in 2012. In the early hours of 25 December 2016, Michael was found dead at his home in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire aged 53. A coroner's report attributed his death to natural causes.

Michael won various music awards including two Grammy Awards, three Brit Awards, three American Music Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards and six Ivor Novello Awards. In 2004, the Radio Academy named Michael the most played artist on British radio during the period 1984–2004. In 2008, he was ranked 40th on Billboard's list of the Greatest Hot 100 Artists of All Time.

"One More Try" is a song recorded by the British Singer George Michael from his debut solo studio album, Faith(1987). It was released on 11 April 1988 as the album's fourth single by Columbia Records. The song hit number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

The song was the fourth of seven singles to be released from Michael's debut solo álbum Faith. A ballad at almost six minutes in length, the song lyrically explores a young man's hesitancy to enter/revisit a new relationship because he had been emotionally hurt so many times previously. The song concludes with temptation taking over, and Michael ends by singing the title for the only time.

"One More Try" remained a live favourite at Michael's concerts in the years which followed, although its radio airplay tends to be restricted to specific "Love Songs"–esque features because of both the tempo and the length.

I've had enough of danger

And people on the streets

I'm looking out for angels

Just trying to find some peace

Now I think it's time

That you let me know

So if you love me

Say you love me

But if you don't

Just let me go

Cause teacher

There are things that I don't want to learn

And the last one I had

Made me cry

So I don't want to learn to

Hold you, touch you

Think that you're mine

Because there ain't no joy

For an uptown boy

Whose teacher has told him goodbye

Goodbye

Goodbye

When you were just a stranger

And I was at your feet

I didn't feel the danger

Now I feel the heat

That look in your eyes

Telling me no

So you think that you love me

Know that you need me

I wrote the song, I know it's wrong

Just let me go

And teacher

There are things

That I don't want to learn

Oh the last one I had

Made me cry

So I don't want to learn to

Hold you, touch you

Think that you're mine

Because there ain't no joy

For an uptown boy

Whose teacher has told him goodbye

Goodbye

Goodbye

So when you say that you need me

That you'll never leave me

I know you're wrong, you're not that strong

Let me go

And teacher

There are things

That I still have to learn

But the one thing I have is my pride

Oh so I don't want to learn to

Hold you, touch you

Think that you're mine

Because there ain't no joy

For an uptown boy

Who just isn't willing to try

I'm so cold

Inside

Maybe just one more try.

NOTHING COMPARES 2 U

PRINCE

SONGWRITER: PRINCE

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: 4EVER

LABEL: WARNER BROS RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 2016

4Ever, also known as Prince 4Ever, is a greatest hits album by American recording artist Prince, released on November 22, 2016, by NPG Records and Warner Bros. Records. It is the first Prince release following the musician's death on April 21, 2016.

The two-disc set features 40 songs from Prince's tenure with Warner Bros. Records and features recordings from all of his albums between 1978's For You and 1993's The Hits/The B-Sides. It is the first Prince collection to include his number-one hit single "Batdance" from the soundtrack album to the 1989 film Batman.

4Ever features the first official release of the song "Moonbeam Levels", which had previously circulated on bootlegs of Prince's unreleased material in a low-quality form. The song had been recorded in 1982 during the sessions for 1999 and was subsequently considered for the unreleased 1989 album Rave unto the Joy Fantastic.

Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer, actor, and filmmaker. A guitar virtuoso and multi-instrumentalist known for his eclectic genre-crossing work, flamboyant and androgynous persona, energetic live shows and wide-ranging singing voice, in particular his far reaching falsetto and high-pitched screams, Prince is regarded as one of the most talented popular music artists of his generation. His innovative music integrated a wide variety of styles, including funk, R&B, rock, new wave, soul, psychedelia, and pop. Prince pioneered the late 1970s Minneapolis sound, a funk rock subgenre drawing from synth-pop and new wave.

Born and raised in Minneapolis, Prince developed an interest in music as a young child and wrote his first song, "Funk Machine", at the age of seven. He signed a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records at the age of 19, and released his debut album For You in 1978. Following up with his next four albums—Prince (1979), Dirty Mind(1980), Controversy(1981), and 1999 (1982)—Prince gained critical success, prominently showcasing his explicit lyrics as well as his blending of funk, dance, and rock music. In 1984, he began referring to his backup band as The Revolution and released his sixth album Purple Rain, which was also the soundtrack to his hugely successful film acting debut of the same name. It quickly became his most commercially successful record, spending 24 consecutive weeks atop the Billboard 200. The film itself was critically and commercially successful and also won the Academy Award for Best Original Song Score, the last film to receive the award.

Following the disbandment of The Revolution, Prince released the critically acclaimed double album Sign o' the Times(1987). He released three more solo albums—Lovesexy(1988), the Batman soundtrack(1989), and the Graffiti Bridge soundtrack(1990)—before debuting his New Power Generation backing band in 1991. In the midst of a contractual dispute with Warner Bros. in 1993, Prince changed his stage name to the unpronounceable symbol, known to fans as the "Love Symbol", and began releasing new albums at a faster rate in order to quickly meet his contract quota and release himself from further obligations to the record label. He released five records between 1994 and 1996 before he signed with Arista Records in 1998. He began referring to himself as "Prince" again in 2000 and subsequently released 16 albums, including Musicology(2004), his most successful album of that decade. His final album, Hit n Run Phase Two, was first released on the Tidal streaming service in 2015.

In April 2016, at the age of 57, Prince died of an accidental fentanyl overdose at his Paisley Park home and recording studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota. He sold over 100 million records worldwide, ranking him among the best-selling music artists of all time. He won seven Grammy Awards, seven Brit Awards, six American Music Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award. He was also honored with special awards including the Grammy President's Merit Award, American Music Awards for Achievement and of Merit, and the Billboard Icon Award. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2006, and the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame in 2016. In 2016, he was posthumously honored with a Doctor of Humane Letters by the University of Minnesota. Rolling Stone placed him among its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. He is also ranked among Billboard's Top 100 Artists of All Time list. 

It's been seven hours and fifteen days

Since u took your love away

I go out every night and sleep all day

Since u took your love away

Since u been gone I can do whatever I want

I can see whomever I choose

I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant

But nothing

I said nothing can take away these blues

'Cause nothing compares

Nothing compares to you

It's been so lonely without u here

Like a bird without a song

Nothing can stop these lonely tears from falling

Tell me baby where did I go wrong

I could put my arms around every boy I see

But they'd only remind me of you

I went to the doctor guess what he told me

Guess what he told me

He said girl u better have fun

No matter what u do

But he's a fool

'Cause nothing compares

Nothing compares to you

All the flowers that u planted mama

In the back yard

All died when u went away

I know that living with u baby was sometimes hard

But I'm willing to give it another try

'Cause nothing compares

Nothing compares to you.

HIER ENCORE

NARA NOÏAN

COMPOSITEUR: CHARLES AZNAVOUR

PAYS: FRANCE

ALBUM: «5»

RECORD: KAK MEDIA

GENRE: POP

ANNÉE: 2013

Nara Noïan(nom d'artiste), née Anna-Naïra Pavlovna Mnoian le 2 janvier 1971 à Erevan en Arménie, est une musicienne pianiste auteur-compositrice-interprète et actrice arménienne.

En 1994, elle fonde et dirige l'école de musique «Monde musical Anna Pavlovna» à Maisons-Alfort.

Elle compose pour Maria Palatine, Christian Merveille et Claude Lelièvre.

Elle crée la musique et interprète sur scène Passage, ou Jacques Mercier se raconte, avec Laurence Waters.

Depuis 2009, Nara est ambassadrice de la fondation 112.

Janvier 2010: elle crée la musique et interprète sur scène Mon Jardin Secret de Jacques Mercier.

Arrivée à Bruxelles, Nara devient, de 1998 à 2000, directrice artistique et enseignante au «Monde de la Découverte», un centre artistique du centre de Bruxelles. Elle ne tarde cependant pas à revenir à ses premiers amours et retrouve la scène en accompagnant un certain nombre de tournées: Maria Palatine (chanteuse-compositrice-harpiste) (2000-2001), Bernard L'Hoir Ensemble(2000-2003).

Compositrice, Nara collabore à de nombreux projets: deux CD de Christian Merveille 1, 2, 3 piano en 2000 et Si c'est comme ça en 2001, ainsi qu'un CD commandité par le Délégué général aux droits de l'enfance, Claude Lelièvre en 2002: Félicien le magicien.

En 2003, Nara Noïan fonde son propre groupe Bradyaga(signifie «Nomade» en russe) composé de musiciens de grand talent. Après plusieurs scènes et la naissance de son second fils Elliot en 2004, Nara produit son premier CD Promesses en octobre 2005 (Home Records).

Les rencontres se multiplient: elle compose l'intégralité de la musique originale, dont les poèmes mis en musique, du spectacle poétique «Passage», de Jacques Mercier créé en 2006 au Théâtre Le Public de Bruxelles. Ce spectacle avec Nara Noïan au piano et la chanteuse Laurence Waters du groupe Bradyaga, enchante toute la francophonie où le spectacle remporte un énorme succès.

Em septembre 2006, sur la tournée fort remarquée du spectacle Leyla et Majnun, Nara se produit avec la chanteuse d'Ouzbékistan Sevara Nazarkhan (Real World - Peter Gabriel), et la chanteuse de Tunisie Ghalia Benali sous la direction de Gerry De Mol (Oblomow).

En 2007, la Fondation Boghossian fait appel à Nara Noïan pour l'inauguration de La Villa Empain à Ixelles, suite aux grands travaux de rénovation. À l'occasion de cette prestigieuse soirée d'ouverture, Nara se produit avec ses musiciens et la Fondation offre à chaque invité un enregistrement original de ce qui deviendra Cristal, le CD produit par Créa-Son.

Au début de l'année 2008, le livre Het draagbare paradijs de Gerry De Mol et le photographe Patrick De Spiegelaere (disparu tragiquement peu avant la sortie du livre) paraît en prélude à une tournée de concerts, qui rassemble plusieurs chanteuses et l'ensemble Oblomow.

C'est em juin 2008 que l'album Cristal(AMG Records) fera son apparition dans les bacs, avec l'un de ses titres dédié par Nara au regretté photographe. Mais le cinéma ne quitte pas pour autant sa vie de musicienne puisque Cécile Rittweger, cinéaste belge, la contacte pour composer la musique de son moyen métrage Mascara.

Reconnue pour sa générosité et pour les messages humanistes portés dans ses chansons, Nara est nommée ambassadrice de la Fondation 112 (numéro d'appel d'urgence européen). En février 2009, elle en compose l'hymne officiel sur des paroles de Jacques Mercier et se fait la voix d'une Europe maternelle s'adressant aux enfants. Quant à la mascotte du CD, elle n'est autre que «Le Chat», du dessinateur belge Philippe Geluck.

Le succès de cette initiative européenne se déplace outre-Atlantique, et invitée deux mois après par le Congrès des États-Unis d'Amérique, Nara se rend à Washington pour y présenter la version anglaise 9-1-1 For You (texte de Maria Palatine). Très proche de la version française, la version américaine du CD est distribuée dans les écoles américaines. L'hymne a depuis été adapté dans la plupart des langues européennes.

Poursuivant sa carrière en solo et toujours accompagnée par des musiciens de talent, Nara va nous offrir plusieurs albums, dont le dernier né (octobre 2012), No 5, est sorti au printemps 2013.

Hier encore, j'avais vingt ans

Je caressais le temps et jouais de la vie

Comme on joue de l'amour

Et je vivais la nuit

Sans compter sur mes jours qui fuyaient dans le temps

J'ai fait tant de projets qui sont restés en l'air

J'ai fondé tant d'espoirs qui se sont envolés

Que je reste perdu ne sachant où aller

Les yeux cherchant le ciel mais le coeur mis en terre

Hier encore j'avais vingt ans

Je gaspillais le temps en croyant l'arrêter

Et pour le retenir, même le devancer

Je n'ai fait que courir et me suis essouflé

Ignorant le passé, conjuguant au futur

Je précédais de moi toute conversation

Et donnais mon avis que je voulais le bon

Pour critiquer le monde avec désinvolture

Hier encore j'avais vingt ans

Mais j'ai perdu mon temps à faire des folies

Qui ne me laissent au fond rien de vraiment précis

Que quelques rides au front et la peur de l'ennui

Car mes amours sont mortes avant que d'exister

Mes amis sont partis et ne reviendront pas

Par ma faute j'ai fait le vide autour de moi

Et j'ai gaché ma vie et mes jeunes années

Du meilleur et du pire en jettant le meilleur

J'ai figé mes sourires et j'ai glacé mes pleurs

Ou sont-ils à present, à present mes vingts ans?

JOSEPH JOSEPH

HOT CLUB DU NAX

SOMGWRITERS: CASMAN NELLIE; NELLIE CASMAN; SAMMY CAHN & SAUL CHAPLIN.

HELP THEM: hotclubdunax.com hotclubdunax.bandcamp.com

COUNTRY: NO ONE INFORMATION ABOUT

ALBUM: WANT RECORD THE FIRST

LABEL: YOUTUBE

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 2019

HOT CLUB DU NAX DEBUT ALBUM ***

Help us record and produce our first Album!

Gypsy jazz(also known as gypsy swing or hot club jazz) is a style of jazz developed by the Romani guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt in Paris during the 1930s. Because its origins are in France, and Reinhardt was from the Manouche Sinti clan, gypsy jazz is often called by the French name "jazz manouche", or alternatively, "manouche jazz" in English language sources.

Django Reinhardt was foremost among a group of Romani guitarists working in Paris from the 1930s to the 1950s. The group included the brothers Baro, Sarane, and Matelo Ferret and Reinhardt's brother Joseph "Nin-Nin" Reinhardt.

Many gypsy jazz musicians worked in Paris in popular musette ensembles in which the lead instrument was typically the accordion with banjo accompaniment, the latter played with a plectrum for volume. Elements of both instruments appear in the "gypsy jazz" sound, with arpeggios and decorations typical of accordionists transferred to the guitar, and a right hand attack applied to the lead acoustic guitar to achieve maximum volume in an era of little or no electric amplification. Other elements of the ensemble sound included the use of stringed instruments only, which was unusual for its day.

The absence of brass lead instruments and drums was a novelty in the jazz context (where horn sections and horn soloists were common), as well as the use of the double bass, which had taken over from the sousaphone to play bass lines. The absence of drums was compensated for by a highly rhythmic style of guitar accompaniment called "la pompe" ("the pump") which supplied both rhythm and harmonic structure for the soloists. Gypsy jazz can be performed on guitars alone with or without double bass. But in the Quintette du Hot Club de France, solo work alternated between Reinhardt on guitar and jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli. Later versions of the Quintette featured clarinet or saxophone as alternate lead instruments to the guitar, and these are sometimes featured in contemporary gypsy jazz ensembles in place of the violin, although obviously departing from the "all-strings" format.

Innsbruck based Gypsy Jazz collective Hot Club du Nax morphed into existence during nocturnal october jam sessions in the year of the lord 2015. At eponymous bar NAX in Innsbruck, of course. The bands characteristics are the enchanting voice of London born singer Isobel Cope, as well as the adorable sizzle of Prague violinist Tomas Novak, as well as the beguiling praising to Django Reinhardts Swing: Innsbruck’s own guitarists Arian Kindl and Lukas Bamesreiter. And last but really not least the irresistible wizard of the double bass, Dario Michele Gurrado from Bologna. Hot Club du Nax is presenting its debut album Love is where you hang your hat in 2019 on tour in Austria, Germany, Italy and France. Among some witty arrangements of carefully chosen standards of the genre, the main part of the album consists of the band’s original compositions, which stylishly transfer the deeply romantic, dreamy and at the same time very hot timbre of Gypsy Jazz into here and now. Psychedelic poems of love entwine themselves with a blazing cold stare around shady fantasies of power, and wonderful sadness dances through the night with endless joie de vivre.

“Ah mon frère. Comme j’aime la musique que vous jouez.” – Django Reinhardt à Stéphane Grappelli

“Oh mein Bruder. Wie ich die Musik liebe die Du spielst.” – Django Reinhardt zu Stéphane Grappelli

Isobel Cope – Vocals

Tomas Novak – Violin

Arian Kindl – Solo Guitar

Lukas Bamesreiter – Rhythm Guitar

Dario Michele Gurrado – Double Bass

A certain maid I know

Is so afraid her beau

Will never ask her

Will she name the day

He calls on her each night

And when she dims the light

It's ten to one

That you would hear her say

Oh Joseph, Joseph

Won't you make your mind up

It's time I knew just how I stand with you

My heart's no clock

That I can stop and wind up

Each time we make up after being through

So listen Joseph, Joseph time is fleeting

And here and there my hair is turning grey

My mother has a fear

Wedding bells I'll never hear

Joseph, Joseph

Won't you name the day

Oh Joseph, Joseph

Won't you make your mind up

It's time I knew just how I stand with you

My heart's no clock

That I can stop and wind up

Each time we make up after being through

Oh Joseph, Joseph, Joseph, time is fleeting

And here and there my hair is turning grey

Yeah ¡

My mama has a fear, wedding bells I'll never hear

Oh Joseph, Joseph, won't you name the day

Oh Joseph, Joseph, won't you name the day

Oh Joseph, Joseph, won't you name the day.